Now that we’ve fattened up, listened to enough Mariah Carey, and hopefully were able to see some of our loved ones, it’s time to send this [pick your adjective] year away.
While the Coronavirus, political turmoil, and racial discrimination protests made the year particularly upsetting, it taught us important positives.
Our health is the most precious thing we have. The forced downtime will get many of us to evaluate our priorities differently in the future. Little things, like sunshine through the window and flowers blossoming, become a joy when we don’t get opulence.
We are lucky to live in a world where remote work is possible. The flexible workplace the world adapted to will remain long after. The science developed to fight the virus has improved modern medicine and made us more resilient as a society.
Nobody starved, died or suffered when the management consultants could not perform. But we would have been crippled if essential workers did not risk their health in doing their jobs. We will see more kindness and appreciation towards supermarket cashiers, post officers and cleaners.
Here’s to a more humble, more empathic, more human 2021.
